Jessica Rosenkrantz, Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Kinematics Dress. 2013

Welcome to Modern Art & Ideas! This course is designed for anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. Over the next five weeks, you will look at art through a variety of themes: Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society. Each week kicks off with a video that connects works of art from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection to the theme. You will hear audio interviews with artists, designers, and curators and learn more about selected works in the additional readings and resources.
Throughout this course you will discover how artists:
-- represent place and take inspiration from their environment,
-- create works of art to express, explore, and question identity,
-- use everyday objects to challenge assumptions about what constitutes a work of art and how it should be made,
-- and respond to the social, cultural, and political issues of their time through works of art.
Through the discussion forum prompts and peer review assignment, you will also have the opportunity to connect with other learners and explore how these themes resonate with your own life and experience.

DP

What a genuinely refreshing course that really caught me attention. Well done to the team behind this course as I am more interested in modern art after completing this course than ever before.

PY

Nov 01, 2018

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The whole program was very well organized, and I liked how the themes were not in chronological order. All the narration and artists’ talk were interesting and highly informative. Thanks!

從本節課中

Module 4: Transforming Everyday Objects

Discover how artists use everyday objects to challenge assumptions about what constitutes art and how it should be made. Explore a variety of artistic and design choices, and the creative acts of inventing and transforming everyday objects.

教學方

Lisa Mazzola

Assistant Director, School and Teacher Programs

腳本

I'm Jessica Rosenkrantz. >> And I'm Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. >> We created the Kinematics dress which is a custom fit, flexible, fluid, 3D printed garment that was made of more than 3,000 interconnected parts that were printed all in one piece with no assembly. >> We're really focused on designing systems that can produce an infinite variety of products. In nature, there are dynamic processes that respond to their environment and they're different every single time. No two leaves are exactly the same, and in the same sense we're interested rather than designing something that's fixed and will always be the same, designing a logic that can adapt to different situations. Or that somebody can interact with and change and have a hand in. >> So you can design your own 3D dress in the browser. People use our apps on our website and experiment with our tools and create all sorts of things that we never would have considered or conceived of. >> We're also really interested in customization as a way of replacing mass manufacturing. And instead of creating hundreds, thousands, millions of items that are all the same, we’re creating something that maybe only just appeals to one person but they can get that exactly one thing that they want.